It would seem to make sound business sense to me, especially as it was accompanied by a huge grant from the EU for the move. It gels well with their other overseas plants in Brazil, India and China. Note that the "Premium" brands of Jaguar and Range Rover are remaining in UK!

It would seem to make sound business sense to me, especially as it was accompanied by a huge grant from the EU for the move. It gels well with their other overseas plants in Brazil, India and China. Note that the "Premium" brands of Jaguar and Range Rover are remaining in UK!

Jock

" Premium brands Range Rover and Jaguar to stay in UK"
That was 3 years ago, if Brexit continues badly and we end up with no deal all bets are off. ALL UK car makers are going to look towards Eastern and Southern Europe where investment incentives are much more attractive.
From the business point of view there is no bright side to Brexit.

It would seem to make sound business sense to me, especially as it was accompanied by a huge grant from the EU for the move. It gels well with their other overseas plants in Brazil, India and China. Note that the "Premium" brands of Jaguar and Range Rover are remaining in UK!

Jock

" Premium brands Range Rover and Jaguar to stay in UK"
That was 3 years ago, if Brexit continues badly and we end up with no deal all bets are off. ALL UK car makers are going to look towards Eastern and Southern Europe where investment incentives are much more attractive.
From the business point of view there is no bright side to Brexit.

Is the disco a big seller in the EU then? Doesn't seem to be a pure brexit mitigation play to me. Possibly something about shifting low margin production to a place where costs are a lot lower and heavily subsidised . Brexit seems like a convenient excuse, but it makes sound business sense.

For the record, i will add that I'm no brexiteer. Bloody stupid idea, but hey ho it's what the people wanted! Screwing up my industry no end.

Nobody has said it was anything to do with Brexit. You cannot pin everything you perceive as negative to Brexit, convenient as that would be. The decision was made long before any referendum. It was a commercial decision. JLR needed to expand production. The British government weren't going to provide a successful UK business any financial assistance to grow further. The EU government needed to get some employment prospects for their Eastern European Members and were prepared to pay companies to execute programmes such as this. Ipso facto, JLR expand into Slovakia (along with Peugot and some other manufacturers. At the time the EU were far more concerned that their newly admitted Eastern EU members were going to quit, not a founding member.

My comment was that other models from JLR would likely be built on the same production line, just like they are in Solihull.

It's a big wide world out there and the lower tech models built in Slovakia certainly would be good sellers outside Europe, so why not more in Europe. Also although Diesel and Petrol is going to be phased out here they will be selling In developing countries much longer, JLR have a brand new engine factory and they want to keep it busy long term.